Quotes for All
Young man, nature is not frightening, it’s people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he’s capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. … Read more
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn’t a thing in my life that has happened that hasn’t been extreme – personal health, family, economic situations…absurdity is the key word. Eva Hesse
Ecstatic absurdity: it’s the confrontation with meaninglessness. Errol Morris
It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. … World peace is only a dream because people won’t allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts. We won’t allow the … Read more
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth Eric Hoffer
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words ‘chance’ and ‘coincidence.’ For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as … Read more
Michel Houllebecq is surely the novelist who best describes contemporary phobias and fears. He also succeeds perhaps like no other in portraying the postmodern character of our society. He addresses the possibilities of genetics at times, or Islamism, and infuses all of it with a certain amount of absurdity. I get a very strong sense … Read more
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case. Emile M. Cioran
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. Elizabeth Cady Stanton